Muzuca in Byzacena

Muzuca was a Roman Town of the Roman province of Byzacena during late antiquity.^[1] The town has tentatively been identified with the ruins at Henchir-Besra in modern Tunisia.^[2][3] Very little is known of the city,^[4] though in situ epigraphical evidence gives us the name and that in late antiquity it achieved the status of Municipium.^[5]

Muzuca was also the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church,^[6] survives as a titular bishopric.^[7]

There are three bishops attributable to this African diocese.^[8][9]

The Catholic Restituto and the Donatist Idassio took part in the Carthage conference of 411, which brought together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa.^[10]

Innocent attended the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hunaric in 484, after which he was exiled.

Today Muzuca di Bizacena survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Luka Sylvester Gopep.